Hair waver



Dec. 19, 1922 1,439,498

P. A. ERSON ET AL.

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their arts snares PETER A. ANDERSON AND MARION T. PECK, or onroaeo, rumors.

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' Application filed March 10, 1922. Serial No. 542,731.

Be it known that we, PETER A. TANDER- son and MARION T. Puck, citizens of the United States, residingat Chicago, inlthe county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improve- 'ment in Hair Wavers, of which the following is a full, clear, concise, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

Our invention relates to. a hair curler, and has particular reference to that class of hair curling devices adapted to be applied to the hair and to be left thereon a sufficient length of time to form a wave or curl without the application of heat. A prom nent object 'ofthe present invention is to provide a curler which can be as conveniently applied to bobbed hair as to long strands of hair; The prior curlers with. which we are familiar had the disadvantage of being unable to grasp the ends of the strands of hair preliminary to winding on the curler,

of short hair, particularly of bobbed hair where the strands are frequently so short that they make only a couple of turns on is provided wlth notches 9 and 10 extendthe curler. A further advantage of this feature lies in the ability to uniformly distribute the strands of hair along the curler and to then fasten them to the curler in. such arrangement before beglnning the curling arms or members.

Another obj e,ct of our invention is to provide an inexpensive curler or waver which can be used for bothlong and short strands of hair, the parts being yieldable to accommodate locks of various thickness. A still further object of our invention is to provide a device which can be easily cleansed and maintained sanitary.

Our invention will be more readily understood by reference to the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a plan view showing the members in open position; I

Fig. 2 is a side elevational view;

fFig.-3 is an enlarged detail view of the free end of the'locking member; and

Fig. 4; is a view showing strands of hair wound thereon and illustrating the manner of locking the members together.

Referring to the .drawings, the embodiment'illustrated comprises a pair of compression members or clamping arms 5 and 6, and a locking arm 7, pivotally connected together at one end of the devic'e'by a connecting eye or other suitable pivot 8.

'Thelocking member 7 is offset adjacent the pivotal connection as indicated at 7 to allow clearance for the strands of hair looked between the clamping arm 6 and the locking arm or member 7. The clamping arm 5 is also offset as indicated at 5 to provide space between the clamping arm 5 and the clamping" arm 6 to accommodate the thickness of hair wound around the two members 6 and 7 so that the clamping arm 5 can be properly locked into'the locking member 7L The free end of the locking member 7 members 5 and 6. "These free ends are reduced in width so that when engaged in the slots 9 and 10 they will not project beyond the sides of the curler. The outer end of the member 7 is offset outwardly as indicated at 11 so as to slope the notches 9 and 10 in the direction of the members 5 and 6 and this facilitates the insertion of the reduced ends in the slots.

In use, the free ends of the strands of hair to be waved are distributed evenly between the clamping arm 6 and the locking arm 7, the free ends of the members 6 and 7 being then revolved together to engage the end of the member 6 in the notch 9, thereby locking the strands of hair between the looking or clamping members. This ability to secure the ends of the strands to the curler before beginning to wind the hair is the characteristic which particularly adapts our curler to bobbed hair, as we have before stated.

At this time the member 5 is revolved away from the two members 6 and 7, as indicated approximately in Figure 4, so as not to interfere with the operation of winding the lock of hair about the members 6 and 7 This windingoperation may be performed by merely twistin or turning the curler up along the lock of hair, as will be apparent from Figure l. After the desired length of lock has been wound on the curler, the

member 5 is revolved to engage .over the hank ion the curler and the reduced end of the member is hooked in the slot 10. This firmly clamps the curler on the hair, the lateralspreading effect of the hair on the arm 5 securely holding this arm in the slot 10. The resiliency of the members and the offset formations 5 and 7 permit the curler to receive locks of hair of widely different thickness and still impose an effective curling pressure on the strand.

'lVe do not intend to. be limited to the specific construction herein shown and described, except as defined in the appended claims.

y We claim: v

1. A hair curler comprising three curling arms having a common pivotal connection, one of said curling arms having a slot for each of the ends of the other two curling arms.

2. In .a hair curler, a plurality of resilient parallel members having a common pivot at, one end, the outer two of said parallel members being offset from the middle member, said middle member and one of the outer members gripping the hair initially and then interlocking with each other by the middle member passing through a slot in the outer member, the second outer member being then swung into engagement with the said first outer member by means of a slot in the latter.

3. In a hair curler, the combination of three parallel members having a common pivot'at one end with their opposite ends free and separable to receive a lock of hair, means for clamping two of said members together at their free ends over the end of the lock, the hair being thereupon wound about said joined members, said third member being arranged to engage over said lock F and held to said two members by interlocking with one of the latter.

a. In a hair curler, a plurality of resilient parallel members having a common pivot point at one end, two of said members being ofiset from the third member adjacent to said pivot point, said third member being normally bent away from the other two members to increase its compressioneffect against the hair when interlocked into one of the two members.

5. In a hair curler, the combination with three members connected together in parallel relation, said members interlocking with each other by first gripping the hair between two of the members and then receiving the remaining hair in wound relation about the same after they are interlocked, the third member being also adapted to interlock thereafter with said two members, one of said two members being provided with slots cut thereinto from the the opposite edges thereof, said slots receiving the ends of the other members to form said PETER-A. ANDERSON.

MARION 'r. PEOK. 

